Day care owner's husband charged with sexually abusing children

Horace Barstow is charged with three counts of unlawful sexual contact.

NORRIDGEWOCK, Maine -

The husband of a Norridgewock day care owner has been freed on bail following his arrest last week on charges he sexually abused three children who attended the day care.

State police arrested 67-year-old Horace Barstow on Friday on three counts of unlawful sexual contact, according to Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety. The alleged victims are all under the age of 12 and the abuse occurred at the day care, McCausland said.